10 Problems With Spider-Man Nobody Wants To Admit

3. A Dork That Gets All The Girls

Seriously. Peter Parker was created to appeal to the usual readers of superhero comic books in the sixties, which is still the assumed main audience for the form these days (when in fact nothing could be further from the truth): straight white male nerds. The kind of kids that get bullied in high school, often times for their dorky appearance as much as their intelligence -€“ just like Peter Parker!

Not only is this hero an escapist fantasy, but one that's even easier to insert yourself into! Except it takes that whole fantasy way too far and starts becoming the sort of terrible fan fiction the put-upon geeks of the world are probably penning in their heads all the way through high school.

Peter Parker, even when he got his spider-powers, was still mostly drawn as a nerd. Or at least, as nerdy as the consistently beautiful stars of superhero comics are allowed to be. They're a lot like rom coms in that way. Why, take off those glasses and you look beautiful!

In Peter Parker's case, not only do people still fancy him, but everyone seems to fancy him - including the literal supermodel Mary Jane Watson. You can't convincingly have him be a bullied nerd and the Casanova of the superhero world at the same time.